Communities in California Toward Zero-Emissions Futures

Environmental justice is a fight for racial justice

In the wake of so much death, Black Impossibilities

A reflection on Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies biannual conference, Black Impossibility, and how important affirmation of life is during times like these. Read it on Medium.

our hair is a map to freedom: from the “1st” free Black town in the Americas

Our hair is a map to freedom: What I learned about resistance from the “1st” free Black town in the Americas - San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia

Fill the Gap Berlin: The First European Contemporary Art Biennale Curated by All Black Curators

This year 46 local and international artists will be featured in the scaled-down 10th Berlin Biennale curated by the South African curator Gabi Ngcobo. Along with Yvette Mutumba, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses and Thiago de Paula Souza, Ngcobo will present We Don’t Need Another Hero.

The Things We Take / The Things We Return

An exchange between a high school student and me, regarding my open letter republished in the Guardian. Read it on Medium.

Why they shoot us at home

Why they shoot us at home: Black people have no “safe space” is about Black geographies and how racialized violence does not heed the distinction between inner and outer geographies. Read it on Racebaitr.

The Intersections of Urban Geography & Technology: What Progress Can Look Like

no somos animales

My poem no somos animales, published on the Unstitute for their series un[DIS]criminate. Read it here.

Who teaches us how to love?

Published in Friktion, this piece is a reading and review of Tiphanie Yanique’s debut novel Land of Love and Drowning.

It was originally published in FRIKTION, a new magazine about sex, body, and culture. It aims to bridge the gap between gender research and the world outside the university walls. Its ambition is to become a serious alternative to a sometimes inappropriate Danish sexual and gender debate.

From Feeling Blue to Being Red

Where's My Tiara? is a collection of seventeen short stories with multidimensional female characters, from all walks of life, that illuminates and celebrates the many facets and complexities of being a woman. My short story, “From Feeling Blue to Being Red,” features 12 year old Miza who is trying to fix her face.

to belong

A digital chapbook produced from Teju’s time in nature while in Israel/Palestine in February of 2017.

“to be Black in nature is to be both a monument and a revelation. to consume less is both activism and ecological self-preservation. to travel is to look at yourself naked in the mirror. to discover, explore, and open up is to liberate deeply hidden pathologies.”

Meditation on Being: A Black Female Body

This is a prose poem entitled “Meditation on Being: A Black Female Body.”

It was originally published in FRICTION, a new magazine about sex, body, and culture. It aims to bridge the gap between gender research and the world outside the university walls. Its ambition is to become a serious alternative to a sometimes inappropriate Danish sexual and gender debate.

BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERYWHERE: TRANSNATIONAL BLACK SOLIDARITY IS KEY

searching to find home

In 2014, I published a digital poetry collection in which I tackle a question that I had struggled with and continues to do so: what is home? In this collection I look at the idea of home through the lens of schooling & education, vulnerability, and borrowing. This book is currently only available in a digital format in the Amazon Kindle Store.

Fame, Money, Power Not Required!

In 2015, my mother, my sister and I came together to present a lifestyle guide that is concise and wise, packed with personal insights, anecdotes, and common sense.

Fame, Money, Power, Not Required! is an important reminder, especially in this era when media and advertisements seem to be saying otherwise. The Adisa women represent three different perspectives that know and live their truth with a positive outlook, their individual talents, and thirst for adventure.

ProudFlesh

In 2013, I had two poems published in a special issue of ProudFlesh, “Caribbean Women.” This special edition, Issue 8, was guest edited by my mother Opal Palmer Adisa. My poems are entitled ‘Carib Woman’ and ‘Caribbean Affirmation.’

With Humans at the Center, We Can All Do Better

In between Things

In 2012, I self-published an anthology with work from my last two of years of high school and first two years of college. In Between Things is compromised of non-fiction pieces, poetry, and essays documenting my growth during the first part of my young adult life. I published this raw and honest prose as an expression of my continuing growth. Although more work could be done to make the book more editorially sound, sometimes done is better than perfect.